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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2.0, Second Edition

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783988525
Length 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications 2. Setting up Your Lab with Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 3. Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web Server 4. Major Flaws in Web Applications 5. Attacking the Server Using Injection-based Flaws 6. Exploiting Clients Using XSS and CSRF Flaws 7. Attacking SSL-based Websites 8. Exploiting the Client Using Attack Frameworks 9. AJAX and Web Services – Security Issues 10. Fuzzing Web Applications Index

Kali Linux

Kali Linux is security-focused Linux distribution based on Debian. It's a rebranded version of the famous Linux distribution known as Backtrack, which came with a huge repository of open source hacking tools for network, wireless, and web application penetration testing. Although Kali Linux contains most of the tools from Backtrack, the main aim of Kali Linux is to make it portable so that it could be installed on devices based on the ARM architectures such as tablets and Chromebook, which makes the tools available at your disposal with much ease.

Using open source hacking tools comes with a major drawback: they contain a whole lot of dependencies when installed on Linux and they need to be installed in a predefined sequence. Moreover, authors of some tools have not released accurate documentation, which makes our life difficult.

Kali Linux simplifies this process; it contains many tools preinstalled with all the dependencies and is in ready to use condition so that you can...

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